HTML? More like ACHE-TML!

Where did it go wrong? Why has such a simple mark-up language turn into the bloated, over-compensation it is today? What do you turn to? XML? CSS? XHTML? PHP? CGI? ASP? SQL? PERL? HEX? BINARY? ELECTRICAL PULSES? INFARED? TWO CUPS ON A STRING?

y'know, all this 'structure and presentation' bullshit was one of the major things that led html to go wrong anyway. it used to be that you just wrote your little html document and then let whatever browser display it however the hell it wanted to. now people all try to use css to specify exactly where each fucking pixel on the screen should go which leads to no end of problems because of browser incompatibilities and varying levels of stupidity of web designers/users. introducing the stupid structure/presentation split more than doubled the complexity of the web and thus more than doubled the number of associated problems.